After assuming charge as the top judge on Thursday, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani took suo motu notice of the Supreme Court administration allowing only one private TV channel to exclusively cover the full-court reference in honour of outgoing chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.

President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday, on the advice of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, has approved a 20 per cent increase in the salaries as well as judicial allowances for the judges of superior courts.

Rejecting the Sindh government progress report on implementation of the Supreme Court order in the suo motu case of Karachi killings, a larger bench of the apex court observed that the security situation would have been much better and the court would not have had to rehear the case if the court order had been . . . → Read More: SC displeased with Sindh Govt’s Karachi killings report

ISLAMABAD – On the formal request of the government, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry nominated on Monday Justice Javed Iqbal and Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, both judges of the Supreme Court (SC), as presidents of the inquiry commissions on the Abbottabad incident and the murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad, respectively.

‘The News’ has reported that a fifteen year old school boy, after getting no response from Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and Ministry of Information Technology, has requested the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take necessary steps to get the p*rn websites blocked in Pakistan.